Leontiev Sergey

1962 born in Kharkov
1987 Graduated from Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. Lenin (Philological faculty)
1989-91 member of the group "Immediate Photography", Moscow
since 1994 member of the Union of Photographers of Russia
Participation in exhibitions and auctions

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1989 "Living Pictures" (with A. Shulgin). Kashirka, Moscow

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1987 "Representation". l of the "Hermitage", Profsoyuznaya st., q. 100, Moscow
1988 "Die Zeitgenossische Photographie in der Sowjet Union". Photographie-Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland
1988-89 "Smile, please!" ( "Smile, please!"). Galerie Comptoir de la Photographie, Paris, France;
Porfolio Gallery, London, UK; Cinema Center, Moscow
1989 "Fotomost". Peresvetov Lane., Moscow
"150 Years of Photography". Manege, Moscow
1990 "Contemporary Photographie from the USSR". Walker, Ursitti & McGinniis Gallery, New York, USA
"Oppositions / Fotografie Biennale Rotterdam - II". Holland American Lijn. Rotterdam, Netherlands
1990-1991 "The Missing Picture". Alternative contemporary photography in the Soviet Union. MIT. List Visual Center, Cambridge, USA
1991 "Photo Manifesto. Photography of Perestrojka ". Baltimore, Southampton, USA "IV LA. International Contemporary Art Fair `91". Gallery of the Union ", Los Angeles, USA
Taganka Theater; Photocenter on Gogol Boulevard, Moscow
1992 "Art Frankfurt` 92 ". Gallery of the Union ". Frankfurt, Germany
"Litza. Contemporary Portrait Photography from Russia, Byelorussia and Ukraine ". Foundation "CIRC", Amsterdam, Netherlands
II International Foto-Triennale. "Erfundene Wirklichkeiten", Esslingen, Germany
1993 "Exchange / Exchange, Moscow
"Uber die Grossen Stadte". NGBK, Berlin, Germany
Who yaN Art of Choice ". Gallery of the Union "; Shkola Gallery, Moscow
1994 "Art of Contemporary Photography - Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia". Central House of Artists, Moscow
1994-95 "Neue Fotokunst aus Russland". Badischer Kunstverein, . Karlsruhe; Galerie im Karmelitenkloster, . Frankfurt; Kunsthalle Faust, . Hanover; Museum Volk und Wirtschaft, . Dusseldorf; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, . Berlin; Hertener Fototage, . Herten, . Germany 1995 "Werkstatt Moskau" (Zeitgenossische Russische Fotokunst),
. Akademie der Kunste im Marstall, Berlin, Germany
"Ergebnis". Galerie am Marstall, Berlin, Germany

Autobiographical notes

His conception of reality photographer has to be in the form of reality, which is much richer than our ideas about it. There is inevitable conflict. Trying to cope with the environment, dominate the external form, the photographer is involved in a specific relationship with the world. This kind of creative coexistence between the artist and interpreted them to reality - the main thing that attracts me to photography.